Bio
Eric Goodman is a graduate of both Yale and Stanford University, where he received an M.A. in Creative Writing.
He has published four novels: Child of My Right Hand, In Days of Awe, The First Time I Saw Jenny Hall, and High on the Energy Bridge. During his notorious Los Angeles years, he wrote episodic television scripts and feature-length screenplays, a practice he continues to this day. Other publications include short stories and more than 150 non-fiction pieces in national publications including Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Departures, Glamour, Life, and Buzz.
By day, Eric is a Professor of English and directs the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is hard at work on his fifth novel, Identity Thief, a story of race, love and history set against a backdrop of racial problems in Cincinnati in 1841 and 2001.